1073 Are 5 Companies at Once Too Many?
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Dr. Foroutan is a parallel entrepreneur and philanthropist with over 30 years of experience in Information Technology, Software Design and Entertainment industries. He is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Contest Factory, Classitech, ZipTech Media, Virtual NGO and Invitation Records. He holds multiple US patents on Online Contest Systems.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got |
| 0:06.9 | filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other |
| 0:16.1 | insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million. |
| 0:23.6 | I had no money when I started the company. |
| 0:25.6 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
| 0:29.6 | We're a bit strapped. |
| 0:30.6 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
| 0:33.6 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
| 0:48.5 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:49.5 | My guest today is Dr. Iman Furtan. |
| 0:52.2 | He's a parallel entrepreneur and philanthropist with over 30 years |
| 0:56.1 | of experience and information technology, software design, and entertainment industries. He's the |
| 1:00.9 | founder, chairman and CEO of Contest Factory, Classic Tech, ZipTech Media, Virtual NGO, and |
| 1:08.0 | invitation records. He holds multiple U.S. patents on online contest systems. |
| 1:13.2 | All right, Dr. Eman, are you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:15.6 | Yes, hello, Nathan. Hello, everyone. |
| 1:17.8 | Okay, so you're juggling like 10 balls. Which one's the heaviest? What's the most fun? |
| 1:23.7 | Well, I would say, I guess contest factory is most fun. And then then right behind that is imitation records, you know, promoting my artist, you know, music label. |
| 1:33.2 | But Contest Factory is what I spend most time on. |
| 1:35.8 | Can you still make money in the music label industry? |
| 1:39.5 | I guess one should not much as from the sales of the music. |
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